Well this is the second time I've bought this I had the earlier belt drive one and sold it in a clear out but when I saw the revised model with metal wheels on the truck I fell to temptation with the sugar can wagon set also due.
Basically the same to look at but the subtler gold of the fittings and bell plus the metal truck make a nice difference.
She's a little bit noisier due to the new shaft drive but not excessively so.
Lovely model and the only improvement would be a DCC socket. Why they've dropped that from the deutz and not added it to this in the retool defeats me. Surely they are losing a few sales to the people who run mts & mfx only?
Mine will get a small soundtraxx decoder and speaker for a mini test layout that will allow me to run this and some 7/8ths models.
Basically the same to look at but the subtler gold of the fittings and bell plus the metal truck make a nice difference.
She's a little bit noisier due to the new shaft drive but not excessively so.
Lovely model and the only improvement would be a DCC socket. Why they've dropped that from the deutz and not added it to this in the retool defeats me. Surely they are losing a few sales to the people who run mts & mfx only?
Mine will get a small soundtraxx decoder and speaker for a mini test layout that will allow me to run this and some 7/8ths models.